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Scientists create painkillers that could be more powerful than morphine from the venom of snails
Mail on Sunday (UK) ^
| 10:43 EST, 16 March 2014
| Sophie Jane Evans
Posted on 03/16/2014 11:13:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Scientists have created powerful painkillers from the venom of snails, it has been revealed.
The substances, based on a tiny protein found in cone snails venom, could be more effective than morphine.
They may one day lead to the development of a drug to treat severe and chronic nerve pain.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: conesnail; medical; morphine; painkillers; painmanagement; sweetbabes; venom
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:13:40 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
“So we snail venom darted a bunch of people who apparently randomly expired afterwards! Totally coincidental and not related to the snail venom itself. But the pain relief was a success!”
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:17:47 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:19:45 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Darksheare
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:23:20 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
To: Darksheare
snail venom darted a bunch of peopleSo this would be the famous snail darter that caused the delay of the Tellico Dam, yes?
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:24:47 PM PDT
by
NoCmpromiz
(John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
To: Ronin
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:25:35 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Ronin
They detest all life that moves faster.
So they have rather venomous thoughts towards us especially.
/kidding.
Certain species of marine snail have rather nasty barbed darts that they launch at fish.
The venom is rather brutal.
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:27:30 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Darksheare
Oh great... now I am going to worry that every snail I see is just waiting for a chance to rush out and stab me with a venomous barb!
The horror... the horror...
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:30:20 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
To: NoCmpromiz
The madman who darted those poor snails?
Terrible!
*eyes shift left and right*
Actually, no.
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:30:43 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Darksheare
Reminds me of the real life experiment where scientists gave an elephant LSD to test its effects. The elephant quickly died and the conclusion was that elephants were sensitive to LSD.
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:31:50 PM PDT
by
LukeL
To: Ronin; Darksheare
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:34:04 PM PDT
by
NoCmpromiz
(John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
To: Ronin
No, not every snail. Just these ones, and their danger is relative to their size (i.e. the bigger they are, the more potent the venom).
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:36:38 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Ronin
Conus snails in the ocean have some interesting toxins to read up on.
But the mental image of a snail wearing snail gang colors and threatening people is amusing.
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:37:28 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: LukeL
Mkultra, its fun to randomly dose strangers with LSD because we’re the CIA...
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:39:40 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: NoCmpromiz; Ronin
I’ve seen my brother’s spawn eat like that.
“Don’t mind me, I’m just slowly ingesting this. With my face in the plate. Nothing to be alarmed by.”
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posted on
03/16/2014 11:41:48 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Olog-hai
We already have painkillers that are more powerful than morphine. The thrill here seems to be that they come from snail toxins.
To: Ronin
Ever wonder why all the French restaurants on Ninth Avenue disappeared?
To: Olog-hai
I had two teeth pulled Friday, right across the street from Coca-Cola Headquarters. I am a little reluctant to return today but the woman dentist and her female assistant are sweet babes.
That's how I deal with it.
To: Berlin_Freeper
To: LukeL
or the scientist who kept pulling the legs off frogs and yelled “hop”, only to conclude when all the legs are pulled off a frog, the frog goes deaf.
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posted on
03/17/2014 12:44:23 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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